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Season 2 Episode 2 Oct 19, 2016

Fight or Flight

Where we learn all about Sam Beam (of
Iron & Wine and the collabo-duet known as Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop)
and Clipping
(William Hutson, Daveed Diggs, and yet another "Jonathan," Jonathan
Snipes).

As usual, episode two of season two is produced and hosted by Sub Pop
Podcast CEOs Alissa Atkins and Arwen Nicks from Sub Pop's new,
new, and also *NEW* podcast studio (that, I swear, is totally
relaxing, calming, and cool).

Show Notes

Fade up.

Scene: The new podcast studio.

Burlap.

“Windowless, dark, bleak.” -Andrew

“I don’t mind the walls.” -Carly

Guest #1

Mr. Sam Beam

Sam Beam is best known not for being the brewery that helped start the
American craft beer movement over 30 years ago (that’s Sam Adams), nor
for being the purveyor of fine, universally available bourbon (that’s
Jim Beam). No, Sam Beam is best known for being Iron &
Wine, a band / sole
proprietorship that has released six or
seven LPs and EPs on
Sub Pop (and some without us!).

If you don’t have twelve minutes, just watch it for however many minutes
you do have, up to twelve.

I’m going to quote Arwen’s note to me here:

Something about Sam Beam that you may not know that didn’t make it into
the final edit of the interview is that he is a fan of metal. Here is a
video of him covering GWAR’s song “Sick of You”–I recommend that you
watch it all the way to the end.

Like Alissa, “weenie bikini” is a term I had never heard. They say you
learn something new every day, and today I’m finding that to be true.

Speaking of the weenie bikini, it is just our luck that there happens to
be photographic evidence of Isaac Brock in his “weenie bikini,” from the
very occasion of Sam Beam’s “audition” to go on tour with Ugly
Casanova. Start
scrolling quickly now if you don’t want to see this.

Guest(s) #2

Clipping by Brian Tamborello

Clipping are best known…
for… I don’t want to offend anyone here. In certain circles, Clipping
may be best known for one of their
members being the Tony (and
Grammy) award winning star from the acclaimed Broadway musical
Hamilton.

Here are some never-before-seen photos of Daveed Diggs, aforementioned
Tony/Grammy winner, with Sub Pop’s own Bekah Zietz (publicity; world
stuff; light A&R) from the night he won the Tony Sub Pop’s Silver
Jubilee (2013). It’s an action sequence, but I’m not sure what order
they go in.

Here is a top secret, N.B.S. photo of a Sub Pop artist signing session
(as in, signing a contract), this one featuring Clipping (in order to
stay on topic). Consider yourself lucky for getting a glimpse “behind
the curtain.”

Let’s start here: The two non-Grammy/non-Tony award winning (though
still great people, nice people, and wonderful people!) members of
Clipping did the soundtrack to (among other films) Room
237, the movie about the movie The
Shining.

And then, everyone’s favorite energy drink’s music arm’s academy, Red
Bull Music Academy, published an interview with
Clipping
on the occasion of the release of Splendor & Misery. If you liked
hearing from Clipping in this episode of the podcast, definitely go read
this interview. You’ll be glad you did, and I’ll be glad you did.
Learn what they think about George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic,
Raekwon, Scarface, and writing songs that don’t use the letter ‘i’.

Since Daveed is a little more visible in the public eye, there are loads
of places and ways to see him. Here are a couple, and if you want to
see more (like him rapping really fast on some late night show), use
google.